[Imc-drupal-dev] [Fwd: Drupal 5.0 beta 1]

[Cameron Gregg]

ekes wrote:
> Probably worth starting to build an Indy install around this....
> 
> Drupal 5.0 beta 1
> News and announcements · Drupal 5.x
> Dries - October 31, 2006 - 15:47
> http://drupal.org/drupal-5.0-beta1
> 
> Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the most exciting beta release of
> Drupal yet, Drupal 5.0 beta 1! It fizzes and it whizzes so grab a copy
> of it here:
> 
> http://drupal.org/files/projects/drupal-5.0-beta1.tar.gz
> 
> 
> ekes
> (Presently editing the very good spam.module -
> http://kerneltrap.org/jeremy/drupal/spam/ - to take into account the
> fact it always gets 127.0.0.1 as the ip address. I'll up the patch if I
> can get it sorted, it's so much better that bl**dy captcha's)

Hi ekes, nice work.

for anonymizing IPs I've used the method:

$_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"] = time();

in bootstrap.inc, which means a random number gets inserted.

I've found inserting 127.0.0.1 on every entry causes problems for the 
Poll module. that is, anonymous users can't vote.

I also understand the problems with captcha - locks out blind people, 
and is yet another barrier to people who aren't very web literate. 
However relying on the spam module alone means extra work for admins - 
deleting the spam, unmarking stuff that isn't spam. I see the spam 
module as a good backup to captcha. I wish there was a better 
alternative to captcha.


Cam